The NCAA men's basketball rules committee introduced more replays at the end of regulation and overtime to ensure out-of-bounds and shot-clock violation calls are made correctly on Friday, according to ESPN. Rules committee chair John Dunne, the head coach at St. Peter's in New Jersey, said Thursday after concluding the three-day meeting in Indianapolis that surveys of coaches in Division I, II and III failed to bring a consensus on whether to change the shot clock.
"There wasn't a vote taken since it was a 50-50 split, so we felt it wasn't the right time to go in that direction," Dunne said.
The 12-person committee had 11 members present and voted on changing the replay rules, as well as adjusting the elbow-clearing rule and block/charge clarification.
Pending approval from the Playing Rules Oversight Panel, which is scheduled to meet during a conference call on June 18, these rules will go into effect for the 2013-14 season. Dunne said there was a lengthy discussion to allow officials to go to the monitor in the final two minutes of regulation and overtime to determine who should retain possession for a play out of bounds. The original proposal was for the last minute.
"We felt that two minutes was better than one minute," Dunne said. "Obviously, a possession with 1:10 left is just as important as one with just under a minute left."
Officials now have the option to go to the monitor during that time frame to check on shot-clock violations. Art Hyland, the secretary editor of the men's rules committee, said the committee looked at the end of the Vanderbilt-Kentucky game in Nashville, Tenn., this past season when Nerlens Noel beat the shot clock and scored the decisive basket to win the game for the Wildcats. But officials couldn't check if the shot clock had gone off under the old rules.
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